Langham Hospitality Group (LHG) is expanding food waste reduction initiatives across its hotel portfolio, with properties introducing new food and beverage offerings that make use of surplus ingredients as part of the group’s sustainability programme.
The initiative encourages culinary and bar teams to develop menu items using excess ingredients that would otherwise go to waste, supporting more efficient kitchen operations while maintaining the quality of guest dining experiences.
At Cordis, Auckland, orange peels and pulp from freshly squeezed breakfast juice are repurposed into a marmalade compote served with yoghurt, diverting around 390kg of food waste from landfill each year.
The Langham, Jakarta has introduced house-made sausages using fresh cuts of meat, while The Langham, Boston serves a Coastal Catch Burger made from cod and salmon trimmings, helping utilise up to 220kg of fish each year.
At The Langham, Gold Coast, Wagyu beef trimmings are used for beef skewers, while rendered Wagyu fat is turned into cooking tallow. The hotel’s bar also creates cocktail infusions using near-overripe fruit and citrus peels.
Eaton HK has developed cocktails using citrus peel and recycled coffee grounds, giving food by-products a second use.
LHG CEO Bob van den Oord said: “Sustainability becomes most meaningful when it is embedded into the everyday decisions we make, including how we source, prepare and serve food. This programme reflects how our teams are translating broader sustainability commitments into practical action, finding thoughtful ways to respect the ingredients we work with while enhancing the guest experience.”
The initiative follows several sustainability milestones for the group. Earlier this year, The Langham, Huntington, Pasadena achieved EarthCheck Master Certification after 15 years of continuous certification. It joins Cordis, Auckland, Cordis, Hong Kong, Eaton HK, The Langham, Hong Kong and The Langham, London in attaining EarthCheck’s highest certification level.
LHG now has 18 EarthCheck-certified properties across its portfolio.
